Working on a Gentoo presentation

Klavs · Guru Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 536 Location: Denmark

Hi guys,

I'm working on making a presentation of Gentoo Linux for my local LUG (SSLUG - 6000+ members

and I have found myself lacking a few answers:

1) When did Gentoo Linux Start - when was it at stable - ie. 1.0 status?

2) Who started it?

3) You say 3500+ ebuilds/packages in "about Gentoo" but my :
ls /usr/portage/*-* -l | grep drw | wc -l
says 4039 at current. perhaps you should change it to 4000+ ?

I'll add questions to this thread when I come up with something I can't seem to find an answer for.

Thank you in advance.

p.s. Please note if you have anything that you particularly thing I should mention - it's a 2 - 2½ hour thing - and I will make the presentation (in english) available on my site - vsen.dk - when it's done - incl. a summary of what I*m going to say under each bullitpoint.
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alec · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 270 Location: Here

My 1.0 CD is undated but seems to have been burned March 30th and the last modified file in the stage 1 tbz is March 21th - hope that ballparks it. Daniel Robbins started Gentoo.

plate · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 1:16 am Post subject:

Check out the official history of Gentoo Linux, formerly known as Enoch...

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Other Things Gentoo.
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modal · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 277

I'm excited to see your presentation.
Good luck.

Klavs · Guru Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 536 Location: Denmark

Thanks.

I just got a meeting date - and it's (if a vacant room can be found - which it most likely can) going to be this tuesday (yes - that's soon

Therefore I wanted to ask you guys about something that I would have otherwise just researched myself.

Gentoo Linux - LSB Compliance.

AFAIK Gentoo Linux complies - mostly. Where it doesn't (which is where?) it is due to the fact that some people think of the current LSB as a straight jacket - and it is a work in progress - that hasn't progressed far enough to be followed 100%.

questions:

1) what parts of Gentoo Linux (summarized) isn't in LSB compliance

2) why aren't they (ie. what would break I guess

I'll sum this up, to a short intro to the LSB in Gentoo Linux distro.
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Working with windows is like attacking a small whining child
who is carrying a .38.

Klavs · Guru Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 536 Location: Denmark

I finally got the date confirmed (a little late I'm afraid :-)

- it's going to be held at at DKUUG/Symbion, Fruebjergvej 3, Copenhagen East, On Tuesday 1. April 2003, 19:00 in room M4.

It's free - as the room's sponsored by DKUUG. It's held by SSLUG - the local LUG.

The "advertising" text:

Klavs Klavsen talks about Gentoo Linux. The people behind Gentoo Linux have taken the best from BSD and Debian and created a distribution that combines this into a really powerfull community distribution.

Gentoo is a Linux-distribution that compiles from source. This way one can decide, among other things, which dependencies your programs is built with, and how aggressive an optimization for your hardware you want.

Klavs Klavsen vil go through what the Gentoo Linux distributionen is all about, including among other things, it's package system (called Portage) and some live examples of it.

The talk is for anyone who wants hear about a viable alternative to their current operating system.
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Klavs Klavsen
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Working with Unix is like wrestling a worthy opponent.
Working with windows is like attacking a small whining child
who is carrying a .38.

Ellidi · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 4:19 am Post subject:

Good luck :)
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Lovechild · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 9:52 pm Post subject:

Good luck Klavs

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Ville ønske jeg kunne stoppe forbi og høre dit fordrag, men det "koste dyrt" at komme fra Århus til kbh med fætter DSB.

Klavs · Guru Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 536 Location: Denmark

I hope it goes well tonight

For all of you I put the presentation online already at my site: http://vsen.dk - left side gentoo-presentation

I hope you like it.

I tried to be very thorough and fair about it

Comments are welcome.
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Klavs Klavsen
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Working with Unix is like wrestling a worthy opponent.
Working with windows is like attacking a small whining child
who is carrying a .38.

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:46 am Post subject:

Klavs, do you know if Ole Tange or someone else will be recording the presentation in Ogg?

Klavs · Guru Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 536 Location: Denmark

it's usually Hans Scou that does this - and I believe he will.
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Klavs Klavsen
Denmark

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Working with windows is like attacking a small whining child
who is carrying a .38.

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 2:47 pm Post subject: